Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-11 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:56:38PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks like this: Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was invented. Sorry. No need to apologize. Anyone who wants to put this in the

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: Done. How do I identify the BIOS chip on my mainboard? ah, I love the wiki. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Robin Randhawa
Hi Stefan! On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:11 +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: I attach the dram code I started to this mail. Hey thanks! It should go somewhere to northbridge/amd/sc520 but there is quite some other code missing around it, and it is probably not really correct. I see. Well I am

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I'd still like to find an elan board that: - has removable flash part - flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP. - has a working bios. This combination seems to be really hard to find! Any pointers? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Dave Olsen
Ron, In a previous life I worked with soekris engineering boards which I think might meet your requirements. I don't have one anymore, but according to the picture on the web site is has a removable flash part. It is definitely a QFP and I have booted Linux on this board using there standard

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
Dave, this is *exactly* what I'm looking for. Thanks! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:22:00AM -0700, Dave Olsen wrote: Ronald G. Minnich wrote: - flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP. It is definitely a QFP Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks like this: PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Pack)

RE: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread YhLu
are you sure? It's using type I/II card instead of CF IDE connecter. YH -Original Message- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:41 AM To: Dave Olsen Cc: linuxbios@clustermatic.org Subject: Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-10 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks like this: Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was invented. Sorry. Anyone who wants to put this in the FAQ, be my guest :-) ron

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-03-09 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robin Randhawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050222 17:12]: Hi Stefan. Thanks for your prompt response. That would be nice. Will look forward to checking out your code. Do let me know when you would be able to hand it over, Hi Robin, Sorry for not coming back to you earlier. I attach the dram

LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-02-22 Thread Robin Randhawa
amount of Linux Device Driver work. After a bit of digging around, I've narrowed down my choice of bootloaders to telios' ALIOS and Linuxbios from you good people. Alios seems to support only the ELAN SC400 and I am not sure of the existing Linuxbios support for the ELAN SC520. Could someone

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-02-22 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robin Randhawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050222 16:40]: After a bit of digging around, I've narrowed down my choice of bootloaders to telios' ALIOS and Linuxbios from you good people. Alios seems to support only the ELAN SC400 and I am not sure of the existing Linuxbios support for the ELAN SC520

Re: LinuxBios support for the ELAN SC520

2005-02-22 Thread Robin Randhawa
]: After a bit of digging around, I've narrowed down my choice of bootloaders to telios' ALIOS and Linuxbios from you good people. Alios seems to support only the ELAN SC400 and I am not sure of the existing Linuxbios support for the ELAN SC520. Could someone please inform me